GEOLOGICAL
AND GEOGRAPHICAL ATLAS OF COLORADO AND PORTIONS OF ADJACENT TERRITORY

F.
V. HAYDEN, U.S. GEOLOGIST IN CHARGE

1877

Julius
Bien, Lithographer

Original
binding as published by the U.S. Government in 1877: boards covered in
brown paper; leather spine and corners; tipped on leather title in gold
print. Original marbled endpapers.

Dimensions
of tome: 20 inches across by 27 inches in height; complete with all 20
sheets and endpapers. Overall condition: very good; some scuffing to
original boards; light rippling to bottom portion of several of the front
pages, however, there is no damage to hinges or pages.

Hayden's
Atlas of Colorado was one of the penultimate publication of the
extraordinary Surveys conducted by the United States Geological and
Geographical Survey from 1868 to 1879. The 1877 was the first
edition of this landmark publication. In 1881,a second edition of
Hayden's Atlas of Colorado, with notable modifications, was
published. Both tomes are scarce research sources.

"... But
never again as during that all too short period when he and I were one person,
when the fulfilled future and the wistful past were mingled in a single gorgeous
moment -- when life was literally a dream...."F.
Scott Fitzgerald, from 'Early Success,' The Crack Up, October 1937